The nascent country adopted its name 250 years ago, on 9, 1776. Americans have debated the moniker ever since. One ...
On Sept. 18 of that year, at the south end of the island, on Nassau Street, the newspaper we know today as The New York Times ...
Most historians are lucky to have readers. Zinn has fans. A People’s History made him, by the standards of historians at any rate, a celebrity. In the early 2000s, he coordinated stage performances ...
Most people who become emperors need an army, a royal bloodline, or at least control of some territory. Joshua Abraham Norton ...
Former Smithsonian directors say the institution needs the right leader to navigate the president’s attacks while staying true to telling a factual story of U.S. history.
Afong Moy is widely considered to be the first Chinese female immigrant in the United States.